Course Announcement

Not sure if there will be any further developments of this very useful and appreciated plugin. However, if there is, one feature that would be excellent would be some sort of per session setting so that the user could dismiss it once per session and not have it come back with every refresh. I think that's called "persistence" but I'm not really sure. It doesn't bother ME, at all, but I've had some complaints about it so I thought I'd see what I could do. I've added the feature request to the bug report page.
By the way, I've just installed it in Moodle 4.1 (dev) and it seems to work exactly as expected.
Thanks for your good work.

I recently got the "bright idea" to customize the RawCSS code, for Boost, so that I could change the colour of the alert box.
/* Change the colour of the Course Announcement box*/
.alert-info {
/*default blue: #d9edf7; */
/*light pink warning: #fad1e3; */
/*hot pink warning: #ea1d76; */
background-color: #fad1e3;
}
Unfortunately, this also changed the boxes containing each question in a quiz! Yikes! Poor students! I hear they use pink on prison walls to keep the prisoners calm, so maybe this had a positive effect! Regardless, I changed it all back as soon as it was reported to me.
It makes sense to me that this plugin uses the .alert-info class, but I don't understand why the question boxes uses that. Mind you, I'm a total CSS amateur. I know just enough to do some damage.

Hello!
The plugin seems to work fine on Moodle 3.2. No error.
Best regards,
Benoit.

Yes, category specific is great.
And as to course specific, I'd like this functionality for this use case: you want a reminder to be displayed ONCE the next time a student visits, and a click to close. Maybe like this:
"Reminder, test today is in 302 not 509". Big, green, just sitting there.
-Derek

This a great plugin, thanks for the work!
I agree that a per course notice does not make sense, as you can just add a notice to that course and style it with bootstrap. However, it _does_ make sense to allow notices to be applied by category. In most schools, I would wager that different programmes sit under different categories. A perfect use case is if you want to remind all students in a given department about some kind of writing standard or policy change. At the moment, all you can do with this plugin is apply a notice to every course in the system.
Thoughts on this?

There's no use to make it course-specific.... If you're administrator you can modify any course you want and add this header. It would be a huge overload for settings page, if I would add a line for each course (some Moodle instances have 3000+ courses).

It's a pity that I can't define it per course.

Prechecker results: 2 errors/2 warnings
https://integration.moodle.org/job/Precheck%20remote%20branch/32093/artifact/work/smurf.html

Approval issue created: CONTRIB-6681